| Name | CVE-2023-5568 |
| Description | A heap-based Buffer Overflow flaw was discovered in Samba. It could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| samba (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:4.21.1+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| samba | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| samba | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| samba | source | bookworm | (not affected) | | | |
| samba | source | (unstable) | 2:4.19.2+dfsg-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - samba <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[bullseye] - samba <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[buster] - samba <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15491
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/3310
https://github.com/samba-team/samba/commit/3280893ae80507e36653a0c7da03c82b88ece30b